Hey guys. Anyone with any thoughts I'd appreciate it. This hardware forum has always been very friendly to me and is full of some reallytechsavy people so maybe someone can help.I'm fairly knowledgeable about computers but am really stuck on this.

I received a 9800 GT from EVGA as an RMA replacement for an older card about a year ago. It installed cleanly and works great with the drivers it shipped with. Sadly after that any driver updates i've tried to use has caused windows to reboot without sending a signal to the monitor. It 'works' in safe mode and shows no errors. If I do a system restore everything is fine.

Recently I tried to update to the newest drivers hoping that they would work. I downloaded them from EVGA. Same problem. I tried several things including the old drivers in safe mode, deleting their folder, using driver cleaner etc. Still the same issue.

Thinking I needed to blow it up and start over I decided to go for a completely clean install so I installed vista again and started clean.

Sadly this resulted in the same problem but now I don't have a system restore point to go back to. I'm stuck in safe mode only. I would love any ideas on what to do and if possible a link to the first series of drivers for the 9800 GT.

Thanks so much for anyone taking the time to read all that and for anyone who helps!

Thanks for the help again! I think i'm going with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131141&cm_re=3850-_-14-131-141-_-Productas UltimateGamer95 recommended.

I can't seem to find a connector for using two 4 pin connectors into an 8 pin which i'd need for this card right? Risking the idea that i'll look even dumber can someone link me to that on newegg? I'm pretty lost.

Says that item has been deactivated. Any other suggestions and I can buy an adaptor to change two 4 pin to 1 6 pin and that shouldn't hurt anything?

Thanks again for all your guys help!

so he has a 4 pin PSU and an AGP motherboard. What are my options nownow?

this means 4 pin right? If that's the case what are my options?

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Yeah so...what's your PSU? Need to know that first before recommending ANY graphics card. *cough* *cough*

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as a guy who's answered a few 100 of these this and what socket does he have for a gpu.. agpx8, pci-e, pci (pity the fool who still has this one)

As far as the power supply I can't seem to figure that one out. Sadly i'm not there to look at it and my little brother has no idea. Here is a picture of the connector for the old card so that should give you guys some idea

Trying to find a video card to purchase for under $100.00.

My little brothers computer is about 3 years old but it was a nice build at that time. His current card is fried and I won't be able to help him put the new card in. He's a gaming nut but is really playing things that are a few years old as the games reach his price point. Any suggestions?

Thank you guys for your help!

sounds like an overheat to me, happened to me when i first installed my 8800GTS. download rivatuner and turn your fan speed to a minimum of 36% duty cycle, higher is recomended for cooler case temps but the noise is a bit muchcornholio157

Any idea why that would be the case when it's been running fine for over a year?

Having some major tech issues with my Gefore 8800 GTS.

A few days ago I started seeing some crazy graphic hicups inside VIsta. Then I got a quick error message that would come and go saying the driver had failed. It would crash to a blue screen that said to check any newly installed hardware. It came and went so fast I couldn't really read it. After that the system would reset. This happened a few times in a row and now windows boots up in 800 x 600 only.

Currently under device manager it says "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)" on my GTS.

I have tried installing the latest drivers from nvidia. They install but nothing changes. I have also done a system restore back to well before the problems started but this didn't help either.

I've checked the card it self, made sure it's seated well. It's fan is running as normal and it dosen't seem hot.

I didn't change anything at all before the problem no new programs or anything of the sort and everything has been running fine for over a year now so it's really baffling to me.

Anyone have an idea of what to do next?

Thanks!